Humanism, Secularism, Feminism

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 35 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

EVENTS

Madness 1

Millions of Muslims gather in Bangladesh for biswa ijtema, the world’s second largest Muslim congregation after the hajj. 50 years ago you could hardly get 500 people to attend such a meeting , now faith is reaching dangerous levels, more than 5 million people come to pray the same prayer every year, ‘oh god, the most merciful, don’t throw me into hell’. Bangladesh government is spending millions of dollars to make the place comfortable for the anti-science, anti-women, god-fearing sinners, desperate-to-go-to-heaven folks.

Please dont only project Islam and fanatics. You will find similar madness in Hindu religion. More than 10 millions of people assembled in Ellahabad for Kumbh mela and about half a million will be found chanting God God in Gangasagar in extreme South 24 Parganas in Bengal. Find out in photographs, you may find similar fanatics and madness everywhere in the name of God/ Allah. Most of the people never came forward to rescue a girl/ woman from the attack of the abusers/ rapists. Most of them are self centered dissociated from any social cause. Yet they find holiness in religious assemblies. Yet they find heaven. The world of God does not allow the ethiest or non believer to sustain. The fascism is in existence in so called religions and their followers. The fascist socieity dominates the blue earth to destroy the human civilization as per desires of the corporate capital in general and imperalialism in particular. It should be the bounden duty of the entlightened writers to expose the nuxus of God and imperialism and form opinion for a human society based on human values irrespective of human identities.
Sekhar Roy

I m ur son. I m nt bangladeshi. I will be an atheist if u can proof there is no allah.universe is like a point amongs the bilion of universe.again bilion of universe are surrounded by black hol.it may be after passes blackhol there maybe trilion*123456789……… of universe. There is no such last surrounding boundry of such superuniverse.now between superuniverse and a atom all are bonded by a unseen bond.it is like energy.if there will a mistak it may be hole system will be distroy.we should selute/pray to this type of energy.if this type energy is not exist we are not exist.so allah means power to keep this energy between superuniverse and atom is exist,not my faith it is proved.

Howdy just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your post seem to be running off the screen in Safari. I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with browser compatibility but I figured I’d post to let you know. The layout look great though! Hope you get the problem fixed soon. Thanks